Class

[GZE]

Hello,

I need to retrieve the class of a window to use it in my script.

What is the easiest way accomplish this?

You could offcourse use the AU3Info.exe and write a routine to filter out the class but I am hoping there is a more direct way.

Ex. For a explorer window I would need ExploreWClass. (see below for AU3info.exe)

Kind regards

GZE

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>>>>>>>>>>>> Window Details <<<<<<<<<<<<<

Title: C:\

Class: ExploreWClass

Size: X: -4 Y: -4 W: 1928 H: 1155

>>>>>>>>>>> Mouse Details <<<<<<<<<<<

Screen: X: 962 Y: 175

Cursor ID: 5

>>>>>>>>>>> Pixel Color Under Mouse <<<<<<<<<<<

RGB: Hex: 0xD4D0C8 Dec: 13947080

>>>>>>>>>>> Control Under Mouse <<<<<<<<<<<

Size: X: 589 Y: 76 W: 1329 H: 1030

Control ID: 1

ClassNameNN: SysListView321

Text:

>>>>>>>>>>> Status Bar Text <<<<<<<<<<<

(1): 59 object(s) (plus 3 hidden) (Disk free space: 8,67 GB)

(2): 992 KB

(3): My Computer

>>>>>>>>>>> Visible Window Text <<<<<<<<<<<

C:\

C:\

59 object(s) (plus 3 hidden) (Disk free space: 8,67 GB)

>>>>>>>>>>> Hidden Window Text <<<<<<<<<<<

[GaryFrost]

Might try:

From help file:

WinGetClassList

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Retrieves the classes from a window.

WinGetClassList ( "title" [, "text"])

Parameters

title The title of the window to read.

text [optional] The text of the window to read.

Return Value

Success: Returns a string containing the window classes read.

Failure: Returns numeric 1 and sets @error to 1 if no window matches the criteria.

Remarks

Class names are linefeed (@LF) separated. WinGetClassList works on both minimized and hidden windows. Up to 64KB of text can be retrieved. If multiple windows match the criteria, the classes are read from the most recently active window.

[GZE]

Might try:

From help file:

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I already found that comand but it does not give the wanted result.

These are the values it returns:

SciTEWindowContent

Scintilla

Scintilla

ToolbarWindow32

SysTabControl32

msctls_statusbar32

And there is not sign of "ExploreWClass"

So please try again

[LxP]

Class names of a window do not change, so is there a particular reason why you need to obtain a class name programmatically?

Edited October 22, 2005 by LxP

[GZE]

Class names of a window do not change, so is there a particular reason why you need to obtain a class name programatically?

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That is just the reason i would like to use them.

eg. Use winlist() and BitAND() to get al your visible windows and close them if they are explorer windows or Internet explorer windows.

it's like sometimes you have like 10 of those bastards open and you would like to close them all at once .

Class is just a handy way of identifying them.

Grtz

GZE

Edited July 14, 2005 by GZE

[GaryFrost]

why don't you just use ProcessList?

returns the Process Name and Process ID's into an array.

Then you could loop through the array and kill all process of certain type name.

[seandisanti]

That is just the reason i would like to use them.

eg. Use winlist() and BitAND() to get al your visible windows and close them if they are explorer windows or Internet explorer windows.

it's like sometimes you have like 10 of those bastards open and you would like to close them all at once  .

Class is just a handy way of identifying them.

Grtz

GZE

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seems like if windows or internet explorer, you could identify them by the title of the window since they both have some static text to match. also, if you kill the iexplore process, i believe that gets rid of all open internet explorer windows.

[LxP]

eg. Use winlist() and BitAND() to get al your visible windows and close them if they are explorer windows or Internet explorer windows.

it's like sometimes you have like 10 of those bastards open and you would like to close them all at once  .

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I haven't tried this but I imagine it would work:

; allow searching of windows by class name
opt("winTitleMatchMode", 4)

while (winExists("classname=ExploreWClass"))
    winClose("last")
wEnd

while (winExists("classname=AnotherClass"))
    winClose("last")
wEnd

[buzz44]

Func WinGetClassName($Hwnd)
   Local $Ret = DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "GetClassName", "hwnd", $Hwnd, "str", "", "int", 64)
   If Not @Error Then Return $Ret[2]
EndFunc

Edited July 15, 2005 by Burrup

[GZE]

Func WinGetClassName($Hwnd)
   Local $Ret = DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "GetClassName", "hwnd", $Hwnd, "str", "", "int", 64)
   If Not @Error Then Return $Ret[2]
EndFunc

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That i didn't think about that one...

Thnx